#ownership — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ownership, aggregated by home.social.
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Keep it real. Do you want firm direction with a soft edge? Yes or no. Take a second, then reply. Submit with patience. #Ownership #TuesdayVibes
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Social Media/News Media: All these social-news media organisations are on a leash. It is conducted with an agenda. Many editors edit and even rewrite what their journalist present. Politics, ownership and alliances matter most. Social Media is well-known to introduce as 'normal' the ungodly, making the illegal legal. In general what we received is 'manufactured news' to serve goals and objectives, not the truth. #socialmedia #newsmedia #politics #ownership
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От «Hello, World» до коммита в rustc: Roadmap Rust-разработчика на 2026 год
Rust давно перестал быть языком энтузиастов. На нём собраны куски ядра Linux, движки баз данных и аналитики (TiKV, Materialize, Polars), бэкенды Cloudflare и Discord. Под Rust пишут прошивки для ESP32 и STM32, фронтенд через WebAssembly, инференс LLM. Microsoft переписывает части Windows, AWS строит на Rust Firecracker и Bottlerocket, Google пускает его в Android и в дерево ядра. По зарплатам Rust пятый год держится в верхнем дециле Stack Overflow Survey , и семь лет подряд - самый любимый язык разработчиков.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1033730/
#rust #roadmap #разработка #обучение #программирование #асинхронность #tokio #async #ownership #карьера
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От «Hello, World» до коммита в rustc: Roadmap Rust-разработчика на 2026 год
Rust давно перестал быть языком энтузиастов. На нём собраны куски ядра Linux, движки баз данных и аналитики (TiKV, Materialize, Polars), бэкенды Cloudflare и Discord. Под Rust пишут прошивки для ESP32 и STM32, фронтенд через WebAssembly, инференс LLM. Microsoft переписывает части Windows, AWS строит на Rust Firecracker и Bottlerocket, Google пускает его в Android и в дерево ядра. По зарплатам Rust пятый год держится в верхнем дециле Stack Overflow Survey , и семь лет подряд - самый любимый язык разработчиков.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1033730/
#rust #roadmap #разработка #обучение #программирование #асинхронность #tokio #async #ownership #карьера
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От «Hello, World» до коммита в rustc: Roadmap Rust-разработчика на 2026 год
Rust давно перестал быть языком энтузиастов. На нём собраны куски ядра Linux, движки баз данных и аналитики (TiKV, Materialize, Polars), бэкенды Cloudflare и Discord. Под Rust пишут прошивки для ESP32 и STM32, фронтенд через WebAssembly, инференс LLM. Microsoft переписывает части Windows, AWS строит на Rust Firecracker и Bottlerocket, Google пускает его в Android и в дерево ядра. По зарплатам Rust пятый год держится в верхнем дециле Stack Overflow Survey , и семь лет подряд - самый любимый язык разработчиков.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1033730/
#rust #roadmap #разработка #обучение #программирование #асинхронность #tokio #async #ownership #карьера
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От «Hello, World» до коммита в rustc: Roadmap Rust-разработчика на 2026 год
Rust давно перестал быть языком энтузиастов. На нём собраны куски ядра Linux, движки баз данных и аналитики (TiKV, Materialize, Polars), бэкенды Cloudflare и Discord. Под Rust пишут прошивки для ESP32 и STM32, фронтенд через WebAssembly, инференс LLM. Microsoft переписывает части Windows, AWS строит на Rust Firecracker и Bottlerocket, Google пускает его в Android и в дерево ядра. По зарплатам Rust пятый год держится в верхнем дециле Stack Overflow Survey , и семь лет подряд - самый любимый язык разработчиков.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1033730/
#rust #roadmap #разработка #обучение #программирование #асинхронность #tokio #async #ownership #карьера
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@MokhtarStork this is beatiful you have the truth #AI #politics #corruption #spain #espana #psoe #pp #bot #bots #work the #word the #peace #justice the #artificialIntelligence its not #arm the #owner of #ownership #speak with the #true this is #facts #viral #follow me #guys #worldPressFreedomDay #Juicio27Abril #year2026 #saludmental #nowplaying #wallstreet #go for you #google and #Alphabet is my 99,7 #percentaje #holder
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Actually, here’s what I really think is lacking: a hide post moderation option in Mastodon.
Instead of deleting posts, moderators should be able to hide posts.
Posts that are hidden by moderators should keep their place in the timeline but state publicly that they were hidden by moderators.
(Servers other than the originating server must treat hidden posts as otherwise deleted and remove their local cache of the content. This is no different to the existing social contact for federated deletes.)
The server should also clearly communicate to the person in question (this can be automated) that their post has been hidden and that they can challenge the decision via regular channels by filing an appeal. (And, if they don’t like the moderation, they can move to a different server, etc., as per usual.)
That would feel much better to me than deleting a post outright and it can be combined with a moderation policy that promises not to delete or edit other people’s posts.
It would also allow for an appeal process and the possible reinstatement of a post should it be found that a moderation error has occurred.
#mastodon #moderation #fediverse #postDeletion #postHiding #authorship #censorship #ownership
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
COVET, v.i. To desire that which the owner wickedly withholds.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #covet #deserving #desire #ownership #perspective
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
COVET, v.i. To desire that which the owner wickedly withholds.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #covet #deserving #desire #ownership #perspective
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
COVET, v.i. To desire that which the owner wickedly withholds.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #covet #deserving #desire #ownership #perspective
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
COVET, v.i. To desire that which the owner wickedly withholds.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #covet #deserving #desire #ownership #perspective
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An interesting sub heading
Maybe the eejit who wrote it might like to ask who owns the companies offering ‘AI’ (hint, it is not intelligent)
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An interesting sub heading
Maybe the eejit who wrote it might like to ask who owns the companies offering ‘AI’ (hint, it is not intelligent)
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An interesting sub heading
Maybe the eejit who wrote it might like to ask who owns the companies offering ‘AI’ (hint, it is not intelligent)
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116515291379924975
Nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, and Star Link. Tax billionaires out of existence.
#UBI #universal #basic #income #housing #crisis #ban #investment #bank #SingleFamily #home #ownership #progressive #taxation #USA #late #stage #capitalism #fascist #policies #oligarchy #MET #gala #garish #millionaire #RedCarpet #fawning #conserivative #press #glorify #wealth #hording -
RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116515291379924975
Nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, and Star Link. Tax billionaires out of existence.
#UBI #universal #basic #income #housing #crisis #ban #investment #bank #SingleFamily #home #ownership #progressive #taxation #USA #late #stage #capitalism #fascist #policies #oligarchy #MET #gala #garish #millionaire #RedCarpet #fawning #conservative #press #glorify #wealth #hoarding -
RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116515291379924975
Nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, and Star Link. Tax billionaires out of existence.
#UBI #universal #basic #income #housing #crisis #ban #investment #bank #SingleFamily #home #ownership #progressive #taxation #USA #late #stage #capitalism #fascist #policies #oligarchy #MET #gala #garish #millionaire #RedCarpet #fawning #conservative #press #glorify #wealth #hoarding -
RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116515291379924975
Nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, and Star Link. Tax billionaires out of existence.
#UBI #universal #basic #income #housing #crisis #ban #investment #bank #SingleFamily #home #ownership #progressive #taxation #USA #late #stage #capitalism #fascist #policies #oligarchy #MET #gala #garish #millionaire #RedCarpet #fawning #conservative #press #glorify #wealth #hoarding -
RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116515291379924975
Nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, and Star Link. Tax billionaires out of existence.
#UBI #universal #basic #income #housing #crisis #ban #investment #bank #SingleFamily #home #ownership #progressive #taxation #USA #late #stage #capitalism #fascist #policies #oligarchy #MET #gala #garish #millionaire #RedCarpet #fawning #conservative #press #glorify #wealth #hoarding -
The design-art collective COPODE and I are pleased to announce the launch of the 100% Inhuman Made badges project.
We’re marking it with a post on the LSE Impact Blog titled ‘Nothing is “100% human authored”’:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/27/nothing-is-100-human-authored/
The project starts from the observation that #generativeAI is unsettling long-standing conventions of #authorship, #ownership and #credit.
Much of the response so far has focused on reaffirming the role of the individual #human #creator. But what if that starting point is part of the problem?
The 100% Inhuman Made badges project explores an alternative: challenging the idea that any work is ever purely human-made, and instead foregrounding the distributed, #collaborative and infrastructural elements involved in producing #knowledge and #culture.
A 100% Inhuman Made badge is thus less a label than an invitation: to rethink what we mean by #creativity, authorship and the human in a world shaped by #climate breakdown and the rapid take-up of #AI.
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🤔 Ah, Rust's #memory management: where #ownership and reference counting engage in a dance as elegant as a hippo on roller skates. 🚀 No GC pauses? 🤩 Hold your applause; Rust's "escape hatch" is more like a trapdoor to #complexity. 🎭 Statically enforced safety, because who needs fun when you have a compiler as your babysitter? 🙃
https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html #Rust #Management #ReferenceCounting #HackerNews #ngated -
Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
#HackerNews #Rust #Memory #Management #Ownership #ReferenceCounting #ProgrammingLanguages
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"Stop underestimating the future value of your current insight.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--Back in 1989, while I was in the midst of my career crisis that would ultimately see me leave the corporate world and start my own freelance "thing," I obsessed over thinking about what possible value my unique skills might be.
After all, I had gone far from my original professional accounting roots, and was deeply involved in all the merging technology, culturem and opportunities of what was then the emerging Internet. I wasn't on the leading edge - I was somewhere far out ahead of most other people in the world - my skills were so niche, so unique, so narrow that I couldn't think of what possible value they might be to any organization in the world.
Five years later, I had a **#1** national bestselling book, my business was thriving, and I had people begging me to come into their organizations to explain this strange new world - for money.
With all that, I learned a very powerful lesson: one of the hardest things to do in a long-term career is to accurately value what you know. It's still the case for me - when you’ve spent 36 years "putting in the work" (**#16**) and "frequenting the fringes" (**#15**), your intuition becomes so sharp that you often mistake it for common sense.
You assume everyone sees the world the way you do.
They don't.And that might be the most important skill you have - a theme I explore in depth in my upcoming Being Unique book. (It's still in editing!)
In my voyage, I’ve realized that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't just about moving to the next thing. It’s about recognizing the massive value of the distance you’ve already traveled. What takes me five minutes to "see" today took me three decades to learn. What I knew in 1994 that propelled my success forward took me from 1982 to learn.
So what's your value worth? The amateur prices by the hour. The expert prices by the decade.
Own your expertise.
Stop apologizing for your rate.
The value of your insight isn't measured by how long it takes you to say it, but by how much it changes the world for the person who hears it.
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Futurist Jim Carroll now realizes that what he knew in 1989 was unbelievably invaluable at the time. It just took him a few years to recognize it.
**#Value** **#Insight** **#Expertise** **#Worth** **#Unique** **#Skills** **#Underestimate** **#Decades** **#Learning** **#Perspective** **#BeingUnique** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Clarity** **#Lens** **#Pricing** **#Confidence** **#Knowledge** **#Rare** **#Asset** **#Journey** **#Distance** **#Ownership** **#Recognition** **#Onwards**
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"Stop underestimating the future value of your current insight.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--Back in 1989, while I was in the midst of my career crisis that would ultimately see me leave the corporate world and start my own freelance "thing," I obsessed over thinking about what possible value my unique skills might be.
After all, I had gone far from my original professional accounting roots, and was deeply involved in all the merging technology, culturem and opportunities of what was then the emerging Internet. I wasn't on the leading edge - I was somewhere far out ahead of most other people in the world - my skills were so niche, so unique, so narrow that I couldn't think of what possible value they might be to any organization in the world.
Five years later, I had a **#1** national bestselling book, my business was thriving, and I had people begging me to come into their organizations to explain this strange new world - for money.
With all that, I learned a very powerful lesson: one of the hardest things to do in a long-term career is to accurately value what you know. It's still the case for me - when you’ve spent 36 years "putting in the work" (**#16**) and "frequenting the fringes" (**#15**), your intuition becomes so sharp that you often mistake it for common sense.
You assume everyone sees the world the way you do.
They don't.And that might be the most important skill you have - a theme I explore in depth in my upcoming Being Unique book. (It's still in editing!)
In my voyage, I’ve realized that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't just about moving to the next thing. It’s about recognizing the massive value of the distance you’ve already traveled. What takes me five minutes to "see" today took me three decades to learn. What I knew in 1994 that propelled my success forward took me from 1982 to learn.
So what's your value worth? The amateur prices by the hour. The expert prices by the decade.
Own your expertise.
Stop apologizing for your rate.
The value of your insight isn't measured by how long it takes you to say it, but by how much it changes the world for the person who hears it.
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Futurist Jim Carroll now realizes that what he knew in 1989 was unbelievably invaluable at the time. It just took him a few years to recognize it.
**#Value** **#Insight** **#Expertise** **#Worth** **#Unique** **#Skills** **#Underestimate** **#Decades** **#Learning** **#Perspective** **#BeingUnique** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Clarity** **#Lens** **#Pricing** **#Confidence** **#Knowledge** **#Rare** **#Asset** **#Journey** **#Distance** **#Ownership** **#Recognition** **#Onwards**
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"Stop underestimating the future value of your current insight.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--Back in 1989, while I was in the midst of my career crisis that would ultimately see me leave the corporate world and start my own freelance "thing," I obsessed over thinking about what possible value my unique skills might be.
After all, I had gone far from my original professional accounting roots, and was deeply involved in all the merging technology, culturem and opportunities of what was then the emerging Internet. I wasn't on the leading edge - I was somewhere far out ahead of most other people in the world - my skills were so niche, so unique, so narrow that I couldn't think of what possible value they might be to any organization in the world.
Five years later, I had a **#1** national bestselling book, my business was thriving, and I had people begging me to come into their organizations to explain this strange new world - for money.
With all that, I learned a very powerful lesson: one of the hardest things to do in a long-term career is to accurately value what you know. It's still the case for me - when you’ve spent 36 years "putting in the work" (**#16**) and "frequenting the fringes" (**#15**), your intuition becomes so sharp that you often mistake it for common sense.
You assume everyone sees the world the way you do.
They don't.And that might be the most important skill you have - a theme I explore in depth in my upcoming Being Unique book. (It's still in editing!)
In my voyage, I’ve realized that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't just about moving to the next thing. It’s about recognizing the massive value of the distance you’ve already traveled. What takes me five minutes to "see" today took me three decades to learn. What I knew in 1994 that propelled my success forward took me from 1982 to learn.
So what's your value worth? The amateur prices by the hour. The expert prices by the decade.
Own your expertise.
Stop apologizing for your rate.
The value of your insight isn't measured by how long it takes you to say it, but by how much it changes the world for the person who hears it.
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Futurist Jim Carroll now realizes that what he knew in 1989 was unbelievably invaluable at the time. It just took him a few years to recognize it.
**#Value** **#Insight** **#Expertise** **#Worth** **#Unique** **#Skills** **#Underestimate** **#Decades** **#Learning** **#Perspective** **#BeingUnique** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Clarity** **#Lens** **#Pricing** **#Confidence** **#Knowledge** **#Rare** **#Asset** **#Journey** **#Distance** **#Ownership** **#Recognition** **#Onwards**
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The Bank of Greenland has entered into an agreement on the sale of its ownership share of BEC as a part of a total sale to Nykredit. In this regard, the earnings guidance for 2026 is adjusted upwards
The Bank of G…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #2026 #a #adjusted #agreement #An #as #bank #BEC #Danmark #denmark #Earnings #entered #for #Greenland #guidance #has #in #into #IS #ITS #Nykredit #of #ON #Ownership #part #regard #sale #share #the #this #TO #total #upwards
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/67511/ The Bank of Greenland has entered into an agreement on the sale of its ownership share of BEC as a part of a total sale to Nykredit. In this regard, the earnings guidance for 2026 is adjusted upwards #2026 #A #adjusted #agreement #an #as #Bank #BEC #earnings #entered #for #Greenland #guidance #has #in #into #is #Its #Nykredit #of #on #Ownership #part #regard #sale #share #the #This #to #total #upwards
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How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house
#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans
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How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house
#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans
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How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house
#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans
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How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house
#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans
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How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house
#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans
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Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
Rust's signature achievement is memory safety without a garbage collector. It accomplishes this through a disciplined ownership system — but that system deliberately has an escape hatch: reference counting.
🦀 https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
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From #BellularNews: #Amazon Just Rug-Pulled People's #Game Libraries
Because of course they did.
Theft as a Service (legalized by the Legislation as a Service attained by renting politicians).
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> One of my biggest lightbulb moments in systems theory class was realizing that even humans who may never directly interact within the scope of your design are very much still stakeholders
Exactly, very true. It is funny.. a couple years ago and inspired by @aral tooting about it, I started practicing avoidance of the word "user".
This now comes very natural to me, to the extent that so many uses of the word really poke me in the eye with how artificial, unnatural, distancing, and yes.. even inhumane they are.
#CodingIsSocial #people! We "social code the social code" of #society.
"User" is a #tech word, same as "Reverse proxy" or "Factory class". And its a leaky #abstraction that serves to lose all #nuance, and is best avoided. Furthermore it implies an #ownership relationship between devs and their captivated audience, that doesn't, shouldn't exist.
I'm behind schedule on a #ParadoxOfEmergence blogpost, may address this.. https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
Ditch use of #user! ✊
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> One of my biggest lightbulb moments in systems theory class was realizing that even humans who may never directly interact within the scope of your design are very much still stakeholders
Exactly, very true. It is funny.. a couple years ago and inspired by @aral tooting about it, I started practicing avoidance of the word "user".
This now comes very natural to me, to the extent that so many uses of the word really poke me in the eye with how artificial, unnatural, distancing, and yes.. even inhumane they are.
#CodingIsSocial #people! We "social code the social code" of #society.
"User" is a #tech word, same as "Reverse proxy" or "Factory class". And its a leaky #abstraction that serves to lose all #nuance, and is best avoided. Furthermore it implies an #ownership relationship between devs and their captivated audience, that doesn't, shouldn't exist.
I'm behind schedule on a #ParadoxOfEmergence blogpost, may address this.. https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
Ditch use of #user! ✊
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> One of my biggest lightbulb moments in systems theory class was realizing that even humans who may never directly interact within the scope of your design are very much still stakeholders
Exactly, very true. It is funny.. a couple years ago and inspired by @aral tooting about it, I started practicing avoidance of the word "user".
This now comes very natural to me, to the extent that so many uses of the word really poke me in the eye with how artificial, unnatural, distancing, and yes.. even inhumane they are.
#CodingIsSocial #people! We "social code the social code" of #society.
"User" is a #tech word, same as "Reverse proxy" or "Factory class". And its a leaky #abstraction that serves to lose all #nuance, and is best avoided. Furthermore it implies an #ownership relationship between devs and their captivated audience, that doesn't, shouldn't exist.
I'm behind schedule on a #ParadoxOfEmergence blogpost, may address this.. https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
Ditch use of #user! ✊
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> One of my biggest lightbulb moments in systems theory class was realizing that even humans who may never directly interact within the scope of your design are very much still stakeholders
Exactly, very true. It is funny.. a couple years ago and inspired by @aral tooting about it, I started practicing avoidance of the word "user".
This now comes very natural to me, to the extent that so many uses of the word really poke me in the eye with how artificial, unnatural, distancing, and yes.. even inhumane they are.
#CodingIsSocial #people! We "social code the social code" of #society.
"User" is a #tech word, same as "Reverse proxy" or "Factory class". And its a leaky #abstraction that serves to lose all #nuance, and is best avoided. Furthermore it implies an #ownership relationship between devs and their captivated audience, that doesn't, shouldn't exist.
I'm behind schedule on a #ParadoxOfEmergence blogpost, may address this.. https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
Ditch use of #user! ✊
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> One of my biggest lightbulb moments in systems theory class was realizing that even humans who may never directly interact within the scope of your design are very much still stakeholders
Exactly, very true. It is funny.. a couple years ago and inspired by @aral tooting about it, I started practicing avoidance of the word "user".
This now comes very natural to me, to the extent that so many uses of the word really poke me in the eye with how artificial, unnatural, distancing, and yes.. even inhumane they are.
#CodingIsSocial #people! We "social code the social code" of #society.
"User" is a #tech word, same as "Reverse proxy" or "Factory class". And its a leaky #abstraction that serves to lose all #nuance, and is best avoided. Furthermore it implies an #ownership relationship between devs and their captivated audience, that doesn't, shouldn't exist.
I'm behind schedule on a #ParadoxOfEmergence blogpost, may address this.. https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
Ditch use of #user! ✊
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/63114/ Greenland Government Approves Transfer of Final 50.5% of Tanbreez, Taking Critical Metals Corp. to 92.5% Ownership #505% #925% #approves #Corp #critical #Final #government #Greenland #Metals #of #Ownership #Taking #Tanbreez #to #Transfer
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Change ownership of a volume #permissions #volumecontrol #ownership
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This is a scary graphic
It should scare people into talking to their representatives as advised on the site#android #lockdown #google #alphabet #programming #ownership #technology
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/887239/ Framework CEO warns AI boom may lead to a scenario where “personal computing as we know it is dead” #AI #Benchmarks #chips #cloud #Computing #Framework #GraphicsCard #Hardware #laptop #laptops #local #Manifesto #netbook #Nirav #notebook #Ownership #Patel #pcs #Privacy #processor #Ram #repairability #reports #Review #Reviews #RightToRepair #SSD #Storage #Technology #test #tests #UK #UnitedKingdom #upgradability
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/?p=58253 Political Gridlock Puts Ørsted’s Ownership in the Balance #Balance #Denmarks #Gridlock #Ørsted #Ownership #Political #Puts
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The Rental Life: What Happens When You Own Nothing and They Own You
In July 2009, Amazon reached into the Kindle devices of thousands of customers and deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. The company had discovered that the third-party publisher selling those editions lacked the rights to distribute them in the United States. Amazon issued refunds. Then it erased the books. A high school student in Michigan lost his annotated copy mid-assignment. A class-action lawsuit followed. Amazon’s CEO called the decision “stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles.” The company settled and promised not to do it again, unless a court ordered it, or unless the company determined it was necessary to protect consumers from malicious code, or unless the consumer failed to keep paying.
That string of qualifications matters more than the apology. Amazon conceded only that it would try to restrain a power it confirmed it possessed. And the definition of a good reason for using that power remained, as it remains today, in Amazon’s hands.
This episode from seventeen years ago now reads as a rehearsal for the present. The subscription economy has grown from a few hundred billion dollars in 2020 to an estimated $558 billion in 2025, with projections approaching $1.2 trillion by 2030 and nearly $2 trillion by 2035. Those numbers track a civilization that has been steadily converting ownership into tenancy. Your music, your software, your games, and in some cases even your car’s heated seats exist only as long as you keep paying, keep complying with terms you did not write, and keep trusting that the company on the other end of the wire will still be there tomorrow.
The Counterfeit of Possession
When you walk into a bookstore and buy a hardcover, the transaction is finished the moment you hand over your money. The book belongs to you. You can lend it, sell it, burn it, annotate its margins, or leave it to your grandchildren. No one from the publisher’s office will appear at your door to confiscate it because a licensing agreement expired. The relationship between you and the object is complete and sovereign.
When you “buy” a digital book, a digital album, or a digital game, the word “buy” is performing a conjuring trick. You are purchasing a license, a permission slip that can be revoked. California recognized the deception clearly enough to pass Assembly Bill 2426, which took effect January 1, 2025. The law prohibits sellers of digital goods from using the words “buy” or “purchase” unless they disclose, separately and conspicuously, that the consumer is receiving a revocable license and not ownership. Plaintiffs’ firms have already begun filing class actions under the statute. Yet the law addresses only the label. After January 1, 2025, companies must tell you that “buy” means “rent.” They are under no obligation to offer you the option of actually buying.
The fact that California had to pass a law telling companies to stop lying about what the word “buy” means tells you everything about where we are. Commercial language has been hollowed out. Familiar verbs of transaction, “buy,” “own,” “purchase,” still circulate in the marketplace, but they no longer carry their historical weight. They have become costume jewelry worn over a bare finger.
Adobe provides the corporate template. In 2013, the company began phasing out perpetual licenses for its professional software. By 2017, Creative Suite 6 was pulled from sale entirely. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro: tools that graphic designers, photographers, filmmakers, and publishers had owned outright for decades became rental properties. If you stop paying, the software stops working. One user on Adobe’s own community forum described how the company shut down the activation server for a version he had purchased with a perpetual license years earlier. When he called support, they told him the product had been discontinued and urged him to subscribe. The perpetual license, it turned out, was not so perpetual after all.
Subscription defenders point to accessibility: Adobe’s Creative Cloud at $55 per month costs less upfront than the $2,000 that Creative Suite Master Collection once demanded. The argument sounds reasonable until you run the numbers over time. A designer who paid $2,000 in 2012 still owns functional software in 2026. A designer who has paid $55 per month since 2013 has spent more than $8,500 and owns nothing. The moment the payments stop, the tools vanish. Lower barriers to entry become higher barriers to exit, and the total cost of permanent rental exceeds the cost of ownership within a few years.
You Will Own Nothing and You Will Browse the Store
Ubisoft, the French video game publisher, demonstrated the logical endpoint of this model with a bluntness that bordered on parody. In December 2023, the company delisted its racing game The Crew from all digital storefronts without advance warning. Three months later, on March 31, 2024, it shut down the game’s servers. Because the game required an always-online connection, the shutdown rendered it permanently unplayable for everyone who had bought it, whether digitally or on disc. Players who attempted to launch the game were met with a notification: “You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?”
That message deserves to be read twice. The company that took your money for a product, then destroyed that product, then invited you to spend more money in the same store, saw nothing strange about the sequence. By April 2024, Ubisoft began revoking the game licenses themselves and moved the title into an “inactive games” section. Its lawyers argued in subsequent legal proceedings that customers had never purchased “unfettered ownership rights” but merely “a limited access license.” The French consumer rights organization UFC-Que Choisir filed suit, calling the arrangement an “abusive contract.” The European consumer movement Stop Killing Games emerged in direct response.
What happened with The Crew followed the subscription model’s internal logic with mechanical precision. Your product was never yours. No transaction was ever complete. The seller retained the power to terminate the relationship unilaterally, and when that power became convenient to exercise, the seller exercised it.
The Heated Seat and the Cold Principle
If the digital domain were the only territory being converted to rental, the problem would be serious but contained. The alarm escalates when subscription logic migrates into physical objects you have already paid for.
In July 2022, BMW began charging customers a monthly fee to activate the heated seats already installed in their vehicles. The hardware was present in the car. Wiring was in place. Heating elements were embedded in the leather. But the function was locked behind software, and unlocking it cost $18 per month. The company framed this as consumer choice, a way for buyers to add features later without committing at the time of purchase. Consumers framed it differently: they were being asked to rent access to machinery they had already bought.
BMW eventually retreated from heated-seat subscriptions after sustained backlash, but the retreat was tactical while the philosophy remained intact. The company’s board member for sales, Pieter Nota, told the press that the approach “was probably not the best way to start.” BMW remains, in its own words, “fully committed” to its ConnectedDrive subscription environment and continues to offer features like adaptive suspension, adaptive cruise control, and parking assistance as paid unlocks. Tesla has moved in the same direction, paywalling features behind its Full Self-Driving subscription. Mercedes-Benz charges annual fees to unlock additional performance in its electric vehicles. Automakers have settled the principle even if the specific application of heated seats proved too visible a provocation.
Here is what that principle means in practice: you purchased the car, but the car contains capabilities that do not belong to you. Your manufacturer retains a residual claim on the object sitting in your driveway. Your property is, in a meaningful legal and functional sense, not entirely your property.
The Surgical Table
The migration of subscription logic into medicine deserves particular attention because it involves the point where commercial arrangements meet human bodies. Intuitive Surgical, the manufacturer of the da Vinci robotic surgery system, has built its business model around recurring revenue. A February 2026 report from the American College of Surgeons noted that approximately 85% of Intuitive’s revenue now comes from recurring costs rather than from the sale of the machines themselves. The surgical instruments are designed to be disposable, usable for ten to eighteen procedures before the system requires new ones. Hospitals buy the robot, but the robot’s ongoing capacity to function depends on a continuous stream of purchases that the manufacturer controls.
This is subscription logic applied to the operating room, and it differs from the ordinary fact that scalpel blades and sutures have always been disposable. Unlike traditional surgical consumables, which are generic, interchangeable, and available from competing suppliers, Intuitive’s instruments are proprietary, coded to the machine, and designed with built-in usage limits that require replacement from a single manufacturer after a fixed number of procedures. The distinction matters: a hospital using traditional instruments can switch vendors tomorrow, while a hospital locked into the da Vinci ecosystem cannot. Whether a hospital can perform surgery on you depends on whether it has remained current on its instrument purchases, whether the manufacturer continues to supply compatible parts, and whether the financial arrangement between hospital and vendor remains intact. Patients on the table have no visibility into any of these commercial relationships, yet those relationships determine whether the machine works when the surgeon reaches for it.
What Disappears When Access Replaces Ownership
Individual inconveniences of the subscription economy, a deleted book, a locked seat heater, a revoked game license, accumulate into a structural transformation that is worth examining in its constituent damages.
Cultural memory suffers first. Archives depend on permanence. A library works because the books on its shelves will still be there next year, and the year after, and a century from now. Digital content governed by revocable licenses cannot be archived in any meaningful sense because the license holder retains the right to make that content vanish. When Ubisoft destroyed The Crew, it did not merely inconvenience the people who were still playing it. It erased a cultural artifact, a ten-year-old piece of interactive art that can no longer be experienced, studied, or referenced by anyone. Modders managed to bring the game back to life in 2025, proving that an unofficial preservation solution was technically possible. Ubisoft’s response was to revoke licenses to prevent even that.
Autonomy erodes alongside memory. Ownership confers the right to modify, repair, resell, and repurpose. A farmer who owns a tractor can fix it when it breaks. Someone who owns a book can lend it to a friend. Any photographer who owns a copy of Photoshop CS6 can keep using it for twenty years without asking anyone’s permission. Subscription models extinguish these rights. You cannot modify software you are renting. Reselling a license you do not own is impossible. Nor can you repair a feature that has been locked behind a paywall in a car you have already paid for. The subscription economy converts users into dependents, people who must ask permission to use things that are already in their possession.
Democratic resilience takes the deepest wound. When the infrastructure of daily life, the tools people use to work, to communicate, to create, to travel, is governed by corporate access gates, citizens become tenants of their own civilization. A government can be voted out. A regulatory body can be reformed. But a corporation that controls whether your software works, whether your car’s features are enabled, and whether your surgical robot has fresh instruments operates outside the democratic feedback loop. Its power flows from contracts of adhesion, and those contracts are written by the party holding all the leverage.
The Counterfeit Bargain
There is a direct line between the subscription economy and the taxonomy of fakery that structures The Counterfeit Bargain. When a company sells you a “purchase” that is a license, it is offering a counterfeit transaction. Every element of the exchange looks like buying. Its language says buying. Its interface mimics buying. But the substance is rental, and the landlord holds the keys.
The average American household now maintains roughly twelve paid subscriptions, with younger consumers averaging seventeen. A Kearney survey found that 72% of consumers underestimate their total monthly subscription spending by an average of 40%. This is the arithmetic of the counterfeit: people who believe they are accumulating possessions are instead accumulating obligations. Each subscription is a thread tying them to a provider who can raise prices, change terms, degrade service, or simply disappear, leaving the subscriber holding nothing.
The subscription economy asks us to accept a bargain that previous generations of consumers would have found absurd: pay for something, and receive in return only the conditional, temporary, revocable right to use it. When the condition changes, or the term expires, or the revocation is exercised, what you have left is exactly what you started with. Nothing. The word for a person who pays to live in a space owned by someone else is “tenant.” We have become tenants of our own tools, tenants of our own entertainment, and in the case of locked car features and subscription-gated surgical instruments, tenants of our own machines. The landlord class just learned to code.
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We are part of every outcome, whether we admit it or not. #accountability #leadership #ownership #decisionmaking #responsibility #workculture
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